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URI Summer Institute - Peace Studies and Certification
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Click Save
How To Add Text:
Click and type where you want the text to appear.
Use the formatting buttons on the toolbar.
Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving
How to Add Pictures, Videos and Files
Click the image icon which looks like a painted landscape
.
Use the 'Upload New File' or 'External Image URL' dialog to select the image or file you wish to put on your page
Put the cursor at the position on the page where you wish to put the image or file
Double click the image or file to put it on the page
You can also add pictures by copying and pasting off of the Internet into the page.
Click Preview to see what the page will look like before saving.
How to Link Words to A Web Page
Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
Click on the Add Link icon
in the toolbar to add a new link.
Click on External Link and type or paste the web URL
How to Create and Link to a New Page or Link to an Existing Page
Highlight the word you'd like to link to.
Click on the Add Link icon
in the toolbar to add a new link.
To link to an existing page, pull down and select the page name you would like to link to.
To create a new page, either keep the name of the word you highlighted or write a new page name.
How to Embed Media (such as YouTube videos)
When editing any Wikispaces page, you'll see a button on the toolbar that looks like a television
.
Click it, and paste the HTML from any embeddable web service in the box.
How to Undo
You can't actually Undo something you just did like in a word processor, but you can revert back to the page before you saved it.
Click on 'history' on top of the page you want to revert
Select the version you would like to go back to, by clicking on the revision in the date column.
Click 'revert to this version' at the top of the page.
How do I add a user icon? How do I change my profile picture?
Click
My Account
to the right of your user name.
Click the link
Change Picture
under the profile picture at the top left.
You will be prompted to upload a picture.
DO NOT CHANGE YOUR USER NAME OR PASSWORD
How do I add an image or document to a discussion post?
To add pictures and files, you need
wikitext
.
The image or file needs to be uploaded and named. For example, let's call the image
lava_lamp.jpg
.
If you want to view it as an image, add it to your post by typing using brackets
around the words image
:
lava
_
lamp
.
jpg
If you just wanted to link to the image, so that other users could download it, add it to your post by typing,
file:
instead of
image:
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How to Work on a Page
How To Add Text:
How to Add Pictures, Videos and Files
How to Link Words to A Web Page
How to Create and Link to a New Page or Link to an Existing Page
How to Embed Media (such as YouTube videos)
How to Undo
How do I add a user icon? How do I change my profile picture?
How do I add an image or document to a discussion post?
To add pictures and files, you need wikitext.